THE WESTERN FRONT
ver 1.01
by Markus Eklund




INSTALLATION
***** This scenario requires FW or MGE to run *****

1. Put all files into a new directory (for example civ2\scenario\wfront).

2. Put all sound files in a directory called "sound" within that folder.

3. Before loading the scenario in Civilization II, run Wfront.Bat to load the 
events for the tribe you want to play.


THE WESTERN FRONT IN WORLD WAR I

"The Western Front" is a simulation of World War I in Belgium and Northwestern France 
1914-1918.

The scenario starts in september 1914 with the failure och the Schleiffen plan, the
German plan to knock out France from the war early by marching through Belgium
and trap the French army advancing into Elsass-Lothringen. The allies moved quickly
and checked the Germans in the battle of the Marne, east of Paris.

The battle of the Marne was followed by the "Race to the sea" - both sides tried to
outflank each other before reaching the North Sea. It escalated into a german breakthrough
attempt in the Flanders. They where again checked, but half the British Expeditionary 
Force was lost.

After this, the war turned into a positional war in trenches and strongpoints.
Advanced defensive weaponry like the machine gun was an effective lock against infantry
offensives. The front hardly moved for more than three years - the two largest offensives,
Verdun and Somme, only resulted in a few kilometers deep salients at the cost of two
millon men dead.

The largest front movement was when the germans retreated to the Siegfrid line in 1917
to make the front shorter and allow a denser defense.

In 1918, after having signed peace with Russia, the germans finally achieved a 
breakthrough with new infantry tactics. The victory was purely tactical - soon
the front collapsed because of allied numerical superiority (The US had declard war on
Germany a year before) and their use of tanks.

The Germans where pushed out of France into Belgium. They no longer had a chance to win 
the war, since they where out of resources and had lost all of its allies due to Allied 
offensives in Balkan.

Armistice was signed on November 11.


THE SCENARIO
There are two civilzation in this scenario, both playable: The Entente, representing
France, Belgium and the British and American Expeditionary Forces; and the Centrals,
representing Germany.

There are totally ten events files, five for each civilization and one for each year.
Run Wfront.bat to change events when you are told to do this. You must save the game
as wfront.sav, or the events wont work. Be sure to load the events for 1914 before
starting the scenario.


THE TECH TREE

CHEMICAL WARFARE I ---> CHEMICAL WARFARE II ---> CHEMICAL WARFARE III
Chlorine Gas            Diphosgene Gas           Mustard Gas
                        Flamethrower              |
                                   |              |
                                   |              |
FLIGHT I ------> INTERRUPTER GEAR ---> FLIGHT II ---> Flight III
Reconnassiance   Fighter           |   Spad       |   Fokkers Triplane
Bomber                             |   Albatros   +-+ Sopwith Camel
                       +-----------+   Handley Page |
                       |           |   Gotha        |
                       V           +-------+        +-----------
TRENCH WARFARE ----> SPECIAL TRAINING      |                   |
Engineers            Storm Troops          |                   |
                                           V                   V
ARTILLERY I -----> ARTILLERY II------> MOBILE WARFARE I ---> MOBILE WARFARE II
Field Artillery    Howitzer            Mother Tank           Mark V
Mortar                                 A72                   Whippet Tank
Big Bertha                                                   Kampfwagen II
French 75mm

AERONATICS I -----> AERONATICS II
Spy Ballon          Zeppelin





(c) 2001 Markus Eklund
markus.eklund@telia.com
markusciv2.cassweb.net